[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] thumbnails in widget not sized properly after upgrade

I have a similar problem with nggSlideshowWidget. Depending on the height/width ratio determined in calling the function, the slideshow shows cropped images. I checked if altering the ratio in the default size property for the slideshow widget (Gallery… Options… Slideshow) would make a difference, but it doesn’t.
(…Otherwise a fantastic plugin!)

Hm… I overlooked the option settings of the Slideshow for ‘stretching’. There do not seem be to such settings for the other functions, though.

@adam,
what for a code do you use in 0.62 ? I wonder that I have reduced the amount of features…

It’s a problem to uses portrait and landscape, maybe with a CSS modification it could be uses, but I’m not aware of it … (I’m a lame CSS hacker ??

@alexrabe,

I believe I used to use this function: nggDisplayImagesWidget($thumb,$number,$sizeX,$sizeY,$mode,$imgtype)

In the galleries, it looks like the thumbnails are being created properly. It’s just that the nggDisplayRandomImages function (or rather the ngg_widget_output function) forces all thumbnails to a certain size. I would think it would be as easy as allowing each thumbnail to just be the size it is, rather than forcing an artificial height/width on it.

– Adam

I have quite the same problem. May I ask, if there is already a way to get the pictures sized properly?

Can some one give me a example link ? Did someone tried to used fixed width/height for the widget ?

I tried to resize the widget window to show you the problem, but somehow the picture get its properly size after I overcrossed a certain value for the width. The display mode changed when I switched from 150×188 to 170×188.

Mode at 150×180 -> Stretch:true
Mode at 170×188 -> Stretch:false

I just wanted to get Stretch:false mode and I didn’t know that it changes automatically. ??

So I think therere is no problem, if the display mode is addicted to the resolution.

You can see the problem here (scroll down to the bottom, “Selections from the Photo Gallery”): https://faithfulheartministry.com/. If you don’t see any stretched pictures, try hitting refresh (you shouldn’t have to do it more than once or at most twice before a portrait-sized picture shows up).

I’m not using the widget, because I need the pictures on the front page of the site. Instead, I’m calling the function directly like this:

<div class="ngg-widget">
		<?php nggDisplayRandomImages('3','192','144'); ?>
	</div>

Ok, you need to update the code and remove the style=”width: xxx px; height: xxx px;” setting in nggWidget.php It’s as I said a problem for a mixture from portrait and landscape and you need to use here only the height setting (i.e. 150px)

That worked. I removed that part of the code in nggWidget.php. In the ngg_widget_output fuction, I changed this:

$out .= '<img src="'.nggallery::get_thumbnail_url($image->pid).'" style="width:'.$options[$number]['width'].'px;height:'.$options[$number]['height'].'px;" title="'.$image->alttext.'" alt="'.$image->alttext.'" />';

to this:

$out .= '<img src="'.nggallery::get_thumbnail_url($image->pid).'" style="height:'.$options[$number]['height'].'px;" title="'.$image->alttext.'" alt="'.$image->alttext.'" />';

Thank you for your help.

Thanks a lot! This looks much better. I have made one alteration.
This code still uses the width style property but when set to zero it does not.

Change this:
$out .= '<img src="'.nggallery::get_thumbnail_url($image->pid).'" style="width:'.$options[$number]['width'].'px;height:'.$options[$number]['height'].'px;" title="'.$image->alttext.'" alt="'.$image->alttext.'" />';

to this:

$zerowidth = ($options[$number]['width']=='0') ? '' : 'width:'.$options[$number]['width'].'px;';
$out .= '<img src="'.nggallery::get_thumbnail_url($image->pid).'" style="'.$zerowidth.'height:'.$options[$number]['height'].'px;" title="'.$image->alttext.'" alt="'.$image->alttext.'" />';